Vocabulary
A solid material made up of one or more minerals.
What is a ROCK?
A sudden movement of Earth's crust.
What is an EARTHQUAKE?
The movement of rock material from one place to another.
What is EROSION?
This rock forms when lava cools and hardens.
What is IGNEOUS ROCK?
Is the Earth's crust thicker under the continents or oceans?
Under the continents.
Bits of sand, rocks, and the remains of once living things.
What is SEDIMENT?
The sudden movement of loose rock and soil down a steep slope.
What is a LANDSLIDE?
The slow wearing away of rock into smaller pieces.
What is WEATHERING?
What cements the layers together in sedimentary rock?
What are MINERALS?
Which layers are made mostly of metal?
The inner and outer core.
Molten rock that has reached Earth's surface.
What is LAVA?
Explain the difference between magma and lava.
Magma is molten rock below Earth's surface, while lava is on Earth's surface.
A large mass of slow-moving ice.
What is a GLACIER?
What type of rock are granite and basalt?
What are IGNEOUS ROCKS?
Describe the layers found within the mantle.
The alternate solid rock, molten (melted) rock, solid rock.
The remains or traces of an organism that lived at least 10,000 years ago.
What is a FOSSIL?
Earthquakes can cause these two landforms to be created.
What are MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS?
Name 2 things that are created as a result of deposition.
Exs: river deltas; new sand dunes
Rock that is formed under heat and pressure.
What is METAMORPHIC ROCK?
Name the five layers of soil in order from top to bottom.
Humus, Topsoil, Subsoil, Parent Material, Bedrock.
What do you call a scientist who studies Earth?
What is a GEOLOGIST?
Underwater earthquakes can cause these to form.
What are TSUNAMIS?
What are some ways that sediment can be moved?
Wind, moving water, and moving ice.
This type of rock is made from other pieces of rock and sometimes can even hold a fossil.
What is SEDIMENTARY ROCK?
In which soil layer do you find most plant roots?
What is TOPSOIL?